Translator: AnubisTL
Chains of Frost, Living Vines, Forest-White Bone, Thunderbolt Net, and the invisible Mind Shackle...
Five powerful restrictive spells descended almost simultaneously, suppressing and enveloping Garos the moment he landed.
The interwoven flashes of magical light temporarily pinned his massive body in place.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Seizing this fleeting opportunity, Red Dragon Samantha beat her wings furiously, darting forward like a streak of crimson lightning.
Her claws, enhanced by alchemical runes, struck like white-hot branding irons. They tore and slashed at Garos's restricted body with terrifying heat.
However...
The moment that scorching heat touched Garos's scales, it was instantly drained and dissipated by some invisible force. Only the pure physical power of her claw strikes—enough to tear the earth asunder—could leave dents and cracks on his outer scales.
ROOOOOOAR—!!!
Bloodshot and ignoring his wounds, the red dragon Cahill let out another deafening roar and charged from behind Garos like a wild bull.
Seeing their chief seemingly restrained, the other adolescent dragons abandoned their long-range skirmishing and spell barrages. They mustered their courage, beat their wings in unison, and swooped in from all directions, eager to join the fray.
Yet, just as they closed in—so close they could clearly see the faint scratches on the red-iron dragon's body—they saw Garos, enveloped in the glow of multiple magical restraints, suddenly grin.
Though he didn't need to use it, Garos decided to seize the opportunity to test the true power of his Bloodburst State.
Thump!!!
A dull sound, like the beat of an ancient giant drum, suddenly boomed from within Garos's chest.
Thump-thump-thump! Thump-thump-thump!
The sound became a continuous, accelerating roar, growing louder and more frantic. It was like the startup of a colossal engine or a war drum urging a charge, vibrating clearly from his powerful left chest and echoing in the ears—and even the very souls—of every living creature.
Simultaneously, centered on his heart, countless crimson energy veins lit up like a living network of blood vessels, spreading rapidly along the gaps in his dragon scales.
His aura began to surge and soar at a terrifying rate.
Crack... BOOM!
The Chains of Frost instantly melted and vaporized. The animate vines snapped and withered inch by inch. The thunderbolt web dimmed and dissipated, and the Bone Cage shattered into dust... Before the red-iron dragon's sudden explosion of power, the five powerful restrictive spells crumbled like snow under the sun.
Garos was free in an instant.
THUMP!!!
As his powerful heart beat once more, a dull thud that echoed across the heavens, all the adolescent dragons rushing toward him felt their own hearts seized by an invisible giant hand, followed by a violent jolt.
A wave of immense terror instantly gripped them.
Every dragon froze in place, their scales trembling.
Then, without a single word exchanged, instinct overrode everything.
The adolescent dragons, including the Adult White Dragon Tracy, turned and beat their wings in a panicked retreat, fleeing even faster than they had arrived.
Only the red dragon Cahill charged forward recklessly, her eyes crimson with fury.
In her Rage State, her body had swollen to nearly the same size as Samantha's, her momentum so fierce she seemed capable of smashing through mountains.
Then, she was struck squarely in the head by a single, casual swipe of Garos's claw.
The sound of a dragon horn snapping echoed as teeth and blood sprayed into the air. All the injuries she had sustained previously erupted at once.
The wild dragon couldn't even utter a cry of pain. Like a puppet with its strings cut, she crashed heavily to the ground, knocked completely unconscious in a single, decisive blow.
For an adolescent dragon to engage Garos head-on to this extent was already an impressive feat. The combat prowess of wild dragons was truly not to be underestimated.
"That's two down. Keep it up, Garos!" Alberto silently counted in his mind, feeling a strange sense of anticipation.
Samantha, who was closest to Garos, suffered the same fate as Cahill. The three dragons who had dared to face Garos head-on were all struck down.
Thump! Thump! Thump!
The overwhelming heartbeat, sounding like the footsteps of Death itself, drew near in an instant.
Heliam, the blue dragon who was desperately trying to flee, suddenly felt his vision darken. It was as if he had crashed into an invisible yet indestructible wall of copper and iron.
No, more accurately, he had slammed into a broad, sudden chest.
Before he could even process what had happened, the world spun wildly. His massive dragon body was seized by a colossal force and slammed into the ground.
BOOM!!!
The earth groaned again as another deep crater was smashed into it.
Thud! Thud!
Immediately after, as if struck down one after another, Green Dragon Ludwig and Black Dragon Seraphina met the same fate. Like fallen birds, they plummeted to the ground, wailing as they lost consciousness.
Garos turned his dragon neck, his gaze sweeping toward adult white dragon Treacy.
Before he could pursue her, Treacy squeezed her eyes shut, steeled her resolve, and abruptly folded her wings. As if giving up the struggle, she plummeted straight down toward the ground.
Thud!
With a dull thud, she decisively knocked herself unconscious without Garos even having to strike.
Aside from the wind and snow still howling between heaven and earth, the sky and land fell into an eerie silence.
The little dragons, still young and uninvolved in the battle, circled high in the sky. Their wide, awe-struck eyes reflected the towering, impossibly powerful dragon shadow bathed in the swirling snow.
"Deborah, thank goodness I listened to you and didn't rush in to join the fray," Fairy Dragon Vera said, blinking her eyes and patting her chest with a small claw, still trembling from the aftershocks. "Otherwise, I'd definitely be in a miserable mess just like them right now."
At first, she had indeed been eager to join in the fray. But before she could, the Red-Silver Dragon beside her had swiftly and firmly yanked her back, leaving her to watch from a distance.
"You'll be better off if you just listen to me from now on," the Red-Silver Dragon, Deborah, said, lifting her chin with an air of reserved triumph and a hint of "I told you so."
Meanwhile, as the ground trembled slightly, the Gold Dragon, Alberto, slowly stirred from his slumber, as if waking from a deep dream.
He first grimaced and stretched his neck, then scratched his still-dazed head with a claw. His gaze swept naturally across the other dragons, all sprawled on the ground in various states of defeat.
"Seven dragons gang up on one, and he wasn't even using his full power. Yet they were all taken down in such a short time," Alberto declared, lifting his slightly swollen dragon face with pride.
He puffed out his chest, acting as if he were the ultimate victor who had held out the longest, and was the first to begin scorning the other "weaklings" who had been swiftly crushed by Garos.
What happened to that once insufferably arrogant Gold Dragon? Garos wondered, glancing at Alberto.
(End of the Chapter)
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